Great Lakes Connection

Commissioners Henry Lickers and Rob Sisson both took their oaths of office in May, the two of them linked by growing up along the shores of the Great Lakes basin: Sisson off of Lake Michigan and Lickers along the St. Lawrence River.

Wet conditions throughout the Great Lakes- St. Lawrence River basin in the spring of 2019 resulted in record or near-record high water levels this past summer on all of the Great Lakes.

We love to talk about weather in the Midwest. At work or the grocery store, small talk almost always begins with “How much snow did you get?” or “What did you think of the wind howling last night?” or, a favorite, “Cold enough for you?”  

The Pier B Resort has become Duluth’s largest private development on the Lake Superior waterfront since the 1960s, and is the result of cleaning up 2 acres of land impacted by legacy industrial contaminants.